Rounding the Cape

[abstamaria]

Here is a wonderful tribute to the Shadows, an original song by two Dutch brothers played in the Shadows style, pointed out by Paul in the Ventures forum.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peDlYtdwzHg

[JimN]

I remember hearing this for the first time in October 1992. The Hank Marvin solo album "Into The Light" was just about to be released and I certainly hadn't heard anything from it.

On British breakfast TV, the presenter Eamonn Holmes introduced an item which had a music track laid over it. It sounded so like Hank - and incidentally, with such strong overtones of the Shadows' and Norrie Paramor's arrangements for The Young Ones - that I assumed that it must be a track from the imminent HBM CD.

At the end of the item, Holmes said that the music used had been by [what sounded like] "Tall A Tall", which made no sense, and was called Rounding The Cape. Needless to say, the track didn't appear on Hank's new record.

A few months later, by pure chance, I was in a record shop in Bromley High Street, Kent. The shop specialised in selling CDs with missing jewel cases (presumably ex-stock from other shops) and "job lots". My eye lighted on a CD by "Tol & Tol", because the name rang a distant bell. Flipping the jewel case over, I saw that one of the tracks was indeed called Rounding The Cape, so I dutifully paid my £2 and bought my copy...

None of the other tracks on the album sound like that one, though. The guitarist is Dutchman Hans Hollestelle, who has made several other guitar instrumental records over the years.

JN